The Good Shepherd (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Marcelo Zarvos & Bruce Fowler
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| Total: 28 Songs |
Album Review
Relative newcomers Marcelo Zarvos and Bruce Fowler team for The Good Shepherd, an uncommonly intelligent and atmospheric thriller score notable for its refusal to conform to familiar ideals of tension and suspense. Rather than browbeating listeners with melodramatic melodies and frenetic rhythms, Zavros and Fowler favor melancholy strings, foreboding piano melodies, and dissonant effects that combine to create a palpable sense of danger. Period material including George and Ira Gershwin's "Embraceable You," Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies," and Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer's "Come Rain or Come Shine" fleshes out Varese Sarabande's official soundtrack release.
Recent Customer Reviews
amazing
by supacowynsimply amazing
Mixture of tense soundtrack, lounge jazz
by ColcloughMoving piano lines and dissonant, minor chords from the orchestra form the basic musical texture. The blurred chords, constant minor key, and repetitive flowing lines lend the sense of confusion, tension, and covert movement. While certain tracks like "Edward" are hypnotic, many tracks are too dissonantly tied to the violence in the movie for casual, uninvolved listening. The jazz tracks are pleasant and unremarkable. Anomalous choral/operatic tracks interrupt the musical flow.
Differently Wonderful!
by cody macThis is a good sountrack for those who like to relax and "visualize" suspense. There are also many songs on this soundtrack that are really relaxing, and I found myself being soothed to beautiful music before I went to bed! It is a must buy!
